Washing-machine



F. SCHNEIDER.

WASHING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 22. 1920.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920.

FRANZ SCHNEIDER, 0F VAN COUVEB, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920. 7

Application filed May 22, 1920. Serial No. 383,427.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ SCHNEIDER, citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Vancouver in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing- Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in a washing machine of that class eXemplified in my application No. 350,271 filed on the 9th January, 1920, and now pending before the ofiice, wherein the clothes are alternately crushed and released between a barred frame 'pivotally mounted to rock back and forth between two barred end frames, which end frames are connected to the mid-frame to have opposite movements to and from it.

In the washer referred to the rocking movement of the mid-frame imparts a turning movement to the clothes which are in contact with it, and the improvement, which is the particular subject of this application, is directed to supplement and more completely effect this turning movement of the clothes whereby fresh surfaces of them are turned to receive the squeezing or pressing action between the mid and end frames.

The means by which this result is effected is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the clothes turning device which is the par ticular subject of this application, showing it detached.

Fig. 2 is a cross section of the cross bar of this device.

Fig. 3 is a cross section of one end of the washer showing the action of the device as applied to the machine.

Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the position of the respective parts at the limit of movement of the direction indicated in the previous figure, and

Fig. 5, a similar view showing the device as lifted from contact with the clothes during backward movement of the oscillating lever.

In these drawings 2 represents the vessel of the clothes washer, 3 the side lever of the barred frame 5 by which it is oscillated about a pivotal axis 4 across the vessel about its midlength, and 6 represents one of the barred end frames which are suspended on links 7 from the upper side of the vessel at each end, and are connected at 9 to the lever 3 of the oscillating midframe 5, so as to be movable with it.

Oscillation of the lever 3 toward one end of the vessel 2 moves the lower part of the mid-frame 5 in the opposite direction and simultaneously draws toward it the frame 6 of that end.

The clothes are thus alternately squeezed and released between each end barred frame 6 and the mid barred frame 5. In addition to this as the clothes are squeezed, those that are in contact with the mid-frame 5 are rolled upward with the rocking movement of 5, and the cross bars of that frame are, in cross section, shaped to facilitate this rollmg movement.

It is to carry on this rolling movement, while the bars of the mid-frame 5 are moving downward and from the end frame 6, that the device, which is the particular subject of this application, is applied.

The device comprises a cross bar 10, of a length corresponding to the width of the frames 5 and 6, to the ends of which bar are secured flat side bars 11, the other ends of which are pin-connected to the side levers 3 of the mid-frame above the pivotal connection 9 of the end frames 6. The length of the side bars 11 is such that the cross bar 10 will rest on the clothes between frames 5 and 6 adjacent the end frame 6 when the lever 3 is in the mid position, as shown in Fig. 3. i

Thus, as the lever 3 is moved in the direction of the arrow shown in that figure, the bar 10 is forced downward against the cross bars of frame 6 and carries on the turning movement which the bars of the mid-frame imparted to the clothes during the previous movement of the lever 3 in the opposite direction. At the completion of the movement of the lever 3 to that side, the position of the bar 10 is somewhat as shown in Fig. 4.

It is to be noted that this outward and downward movement of the bar 10 is effected while the end frame 6 is moving from before it.

The downward pressure of the bar 10 on the clothes adjacent the end frame causes the clothes nearer the mid-frame 5 to yield upward in readiness for the upward rolling action of the mid-frame during oscillation of that frame in the opposite direction.

As shown in Fig. 5, while the clothes are being squeezed together and rolled upward by the cross bars of the mid-frame 5, the cross bar 10 is lifted by the upper bar of the mid-frame from engagement with the clothes, so as not to counteract the upward rolling movement.

Having now particularly described my invention, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is: p

1. In a clothes washer, the combination with a rocking mid-frame and end frames pivotally connected thereto to move oppositely to and from the mid-frame, of means for pressing the clothes toward each end frame as each end frame recedes from the mid-frame.

2. In a clothes washer, the combination with a rocking mid-frame and end frames pivotally connected to the mid-frame above the center of its oscillation, of a frame carrying a presser bar pivotally connected to the mid-frame and adapted to rest on the clothes in the washer intermediate the midframe and each end frame.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

FRANZ SCHNEIDER. 

